Bean's Review: Pretty disappointed with this movie, as with
such a great cast, I was expecting a better story. Once again, the
movie was about 1/2 too long for the story line. Although, called Noah,
the story only loosely followed the Bible. I have
no issue with that, it is the story was not very good. The acting was
good by Russell Crowe, Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins. There were
interesting concepts in the story, such as the Watchers, but Noah’s
mission to seek out only the innocent and just almost
ended very badly.
Best Scene: When Anthony Hopkins’ character was teaching one of the boys cat cradle – so incongruous to the rest of the movie
A.C.'s Review: Noah was a very weak effort on Hollywood’s part to latch onto anything that
has the least amount of “name recognition” in hopes of luring people to
the theater. Probably everyone in the
world knows the brief biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood and as
I understand it other religions also have similar stories in their
repertoire.
In
this epic fail in an attempt to pad out the story we get a Noah that
the scriptwriters don’t know what to do with. All bases are covered.
Noah is a mystic, Noah is an action hero, Noah
at one point even becomes the villain with homicidal tendencies towards
his own grandchildren. What a mess! Also there is the uncomfortable
notion that Noah’s family is left to repopulate the world….that implies
some pretty untoward things need to happen for
that to take place.
I
will say to reviewer Bean…that I can see why they included the rock
monsters aka “The Watchers”. The needed some explanation as to how Noah
and his family alone could construct that vast
ark…which is glossed over in the Bible stories. When I saw them I
couldn’t help but think about how upset William Shatner was when he
directed Star Trek V and the studio cut his budget and he couldn’t have
some rock monster “demons” for the finale. Finally
these rock monsters see the light and in a Paramount released movie no
less…but if you are cribbing from Bill Shatner and Star Trek V you are
in trouble.
On a plus side the animal effects were well done.
Best
Scene: The last survivors clinging to a mountaintop before the being
washed away as the Ark floats away-with Noah turning his cold ear to
their pleas.
A.C.'s: Rating: DVD only
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